Soundz, Designz, Toyz and Gear..

here’s my latest mixtape for the month of september. i am a hopeless optimist and still hoping for some nice last days of summer. this month’s episode features the usual load of nice deep and underground house grooves – perfect for some last sunny days and summer nights!
have a great month and until next time,
cheerz.

enjoy this months episode and head on over to iTunes and subscribe to da funk.. here or find the older episodes here on my blog in the mixtape category!

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K1X – german based basketball and streetwear label are today opening a pop-up store in the heart of NYC. and they took along some limited printed out, numbered and signed MechaBunnies! along those already published mbuns is one brand new and exclusive custom version with one of their current styles of the line called DCAC mask (don’t call it a comeback!)

i packed the signed and numbered toys in a bag and threw in one of my signed moo-cards as well.

so, if you happen to be in nyc this month make sure to stop by their store on359 Lafayette street, New York, NY 10012 and make sure to spend some money there.. because from all he profits they make, 20% will be donated to the *Folorunsho sharity – a project that works directly with the street kids in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

this time we got together, because we were invited to participate at the Sneakerness held in amsterdam for the first time.Dolly Oblong, 3eyedbear, [MCK] and I again exhibited some of our work and even had some sneaker-related toys to present.

together with ant of Dolly Oblong i made a robot out of shoeboxes, which i had planned beforehand.

we had quite a lot interested folks at our booth and all sold some paperkits. me just enough to pay for the immense parking-fee in the parking-lot.. o_____O

for the whole set of pictures from the event, head on over to my cargo collective page.. here!
more pics from the Sneakerness can be found here!

it was again time for the AMS*DIY – THE URBAN ART AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL at the ABC-Treehouse, where DIY-artists met and showed off their skills and output and workshops were held. Dolly Oblong, [MCK], Marshall Alexander, 3eyedbearand I were there and showed new and old papertoys. Marten even held two workshops, where he showed interested folks how to create creatures out of flat paper.

meeting the Straat Papier Holland Klik was a blast, we had a great time in amsterdam and next time everyone should come along and say hi!
we won’t bite – promise! (just maybe a papercut, and only if specifically requested!)

for the whole set of pictures from the event, head on over to my cargo collective page.. here!

earlier this year i was interviewed by THE toyblogger, Andy Heng aka TOYSREVIL. i felt very honored to be interviewed by him and to have the opportunity to speak to his audience. i think it turned out really nice.

this is the second release of my cactus-tribute series, this time i made a cactus-version of the amazingly awesome Teddy Troops by Flying Förtress!
he already made a blogpost on his website about it and gave me his permission to make this version available for download.. and here it is! just click on the pic, start downloading, printing, cutting, folding and glueing!

sadly this months episode title is a pretty accurate description of our summer here.
rainy day after rainy day.. really depressing. this month’s episode features as usual loads of nice deep and underground house grooves – perfect for a rainy
day at home, but also sunny days and nice nights! ^^
have a great month and until next time,
cheerz.

enjoy this months episode and head on over to iTunes and subscribe to da funk.. here or find the older episodes here on my blog in the mixtape category!

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as a ninjatown-fan and passionate “trees of doom“-player the idea sprung to my head to do another custom design of my papertoy-cactus friend.
and luckily enough, shawn, the mastermind behind ninjatown did like my idea and has now made a post on his website and made the template available for you to download and build!

what would be cool though, is, if you take pics of your paper-ninjas sitting around or hiding somewhere, if you could send me those. i have created a flickr-group of where they are found hiding. feel free to join and add your pics! ^^

two weeks ago i went to amsterdam for an amazing event (post with pics following soon – promise!) and Dolly Oblong surprised me with this awesome gift and plush-custom of KUJIRA – meet BARRY THE BARRACUDA!

here he is on his way back with me to germany:

and i also brought along a little friend for him, his name is THE BLOB..
(you should really check out Dolly’s online-shop, she’s got some really nice little “knuffels” there for you.. ^^)

hopefully i can present you the paper-version of BARRY soon, as they promised me to make that one as well.

imawan rahadianto aka ima123 sent me this lovely KUJIRA-design. there is even a nice story behind his idea and custom-design. this is what he wrote:

Here goes the KujiraBatiken
it was actually a whale stuck in a group of batik sarong after the 7th month ceremony (a ceremony when a women is expecting her first born baby where during the 7th month period where she is randomly exchanging seven batik sarongs continuosly)
After the ceremony ends, the other women in the ceremony will hurry to grab those sarongs as they are believed to give blessings… well in this case the whale just won some of them…

thank you very much, imawan!
and now you can go to the menu and get a hold of him – here!